Colorado aerospace leaders have sent a letter to Colorado’s congressional delegation urging them to maintain funding for space science and workforce training programs at NASA in the next fiscal year and beyond.
The joint letter signed by aerospace company leaders and industry stakeholders, including Lockheed Martin and United Launch Alliance, notes that Colorado is home “to some of the nation’s top university aerospace programs,” including the University of Colorado Boulder.
More than 55,000 people are directly employed and another 184,000 people are indirectly employed by the state’s aerospace industry, the letter says, adding that NASA contracts support 21,600 jobs and $190 million in state tax revenue. In the 2023 fiscal year alone, those contracts generated more than $5 billion in economic activity…